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•  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1506 until his abdication in 1556. On the eve of his death in 1556, his realm, which has been described as one in which the sun never sets, spanned almost 4 million square kilometers.

  

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•  Johann Stumpf (writer)

  Johann Stumpf (1500–1578) was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland. He was born at Bruchsal, and was educated there and at Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1520 he became a cleric or chaplain in the order of the Knights Hospitaller. He was sent in 1521 to the preceptory of that order at Freiburg in Breisgau, ordained a priest at Basel, and in 1522 was placed in charge of the preceptory at Bubikon.

  

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•  Benvenuto Cellini

  Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 1500 – 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.

  

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•  Joachim Camerarius

  Joachim Camerarius (April 12, 1500 – April 17, 1574), the Elder, German classical scholar, was born at Bamberg, Bavaria. His family name was Liebhard, but he was generally called Kammermeister, previous members of his family having held the office of chamberlain (camerarius) to the bishops of Bamberg. He studied at Leipzig, Erfurt and Wittenberg, where he became intimate with Melanchthon. For some years he was teacher of history and Greek at the gymnasium in Nuremberg.

  

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•  Federico II, Duke of Mantua

  Federico II of Gonzaga (May 17, 1500 – August 28, 1540), was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1519 until his death. He was also Marquis of Montferrat from 1536.

  

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•  Alexander Ales

  Alexander Ales (Alesius) (23 April 1500–17 March 1565) was a Scottish theologian of the school of Augsburg.

  

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•  John of Avila

  Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia (6 January 1500, Almodóvar del Campo – 10 May 1569, Montilla, Spain) was a Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970. Known in Spanish as San Juan de Ávila. Saint John of Avila was of Jewish converso descent. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law but returned after a year to his father's home, where he spent the next three years in the practice of austere piety.

  

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•  Charles Dumoulin

  Charles Dumoulin (1500 – 1566), French jurist, was born in Paris. He began practice as an advocate before the parlement of Paris. Dumoulin turned Calvinist, and when the persecution of the Protestants began he went to Germany, where for a long time he taught law at Strasbourg, Besançon and elsewhere. He returned to France in 1557.

  

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•  Renée of France

  Renée de France (25 October 1510 – 12 June 1574) was the younger daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany. Her elder sister was Queen Claude of France. She was the Duchess of Ferrara due to her marriage to Ercole II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI.

  

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•  Robert Aske (political leader)

  Robert Aske (1500 – 12 July 1537) was an English lawyer who became the leader of rebellion in York. He led the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 and was executed by Henry VIII for treason in 1537.

  

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•  John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

  John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.

  

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•  List of characters from The Sopranos in the Soprano crime family

  The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos that are associated with the Soprano crime family.

  

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•  New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993

  The Human Rights Act 1993 is an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand which deals with discrimination. It was a consolidation and amendment of The Race Relations Act 1971 and the Human Rights Commission Act 1977. It passed into law 1 February 1994. The Act governs the work of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.

  

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•  Peter F. Stevens

  Peter Francis Stevens (Peter F. Stevens or P.F. Stevens) is an American botanist born in 1944. He is a researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden and professor of Biology of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. More importantly, he is a member of Angiosperm Phylogeny Group which created the APG and APG II classifications. He is the author of Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, presenting his modification of APG II.

  

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